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Thomas Dolby

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I've been playing TED for nearly a decade,and I've very rarely playedany new songs of my own.And that was largely because there weren't any.

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(Laughter)

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So I've been busy with a couple of projects,and one of them was this:The Nutmeg.A 1930s ship's lifeboat,which I've been restoring in the gardenof my beach house in England.And, so now,when the polar ice caps melt,my recording studio will rise up like an ark,and I'll float off into the drowned worldlike a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.During the day,the Nutmeg collects energyfrom solar panels on the roof of the wheelhouse,and from a 450 watt turbineup the mast.So that when it gets dark,I've got plenty of power.And I can light up the Nutmeg like a beacon.And so I go in there until the early hours of the morning,and I work on new songs.I'd like to play to you guys,if you're willing to be the first audience to hear it.

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(Applause)

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It's about Billie Holiday.And it appears that,some night in 1947she left her physical spaceand was missing all night,until she reappeared in the morning.But I know where she was.She was with me on my lifeboat.And she was hot.